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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Who Gets Manic-Depressive Illness?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for patients whose mood changes collide with one another, from month to month, day to day, sometimes even within the same day?
(a) Multicyclers.
(b) Schizophrenics.
(c) Frequency bipolars.
(d) Rapid cyclers.

2. In a study in Belgium, among the adoptive parents of bipolar adoptees, the prevalence in mental illness was what percent?
(a) 30.
(b) 19.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

3. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?
(a) Reactive depression.
(b) Bipolar depression.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Unipolar depression.

4. What is the term for depressions which are a normal response to a major trauma?
(a) Unipolar depression.
(b) Actuary depression.
(c) Reactive depression.
(d) Normal depression.

5. Patty duke writes, "____ was the most oppressive thing about living with the Rosses."
(a) Fear.
(b) Money.
(c) Danger.
(d) Longing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?

2. Duke writes in Chapter 1 that as her episodes increased with frequency they also increased with what?

3. How old was Patty when her parents split up?

4. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.

5. How old was Patty when she stopped living with her managers?

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